198th Anniversary of Uncle Georg and Aunt Katherina.

Posted on January 15, 2020 by Pat Shaul

On 15 January 1822, in the Evangelish, Schoemberg, Schwarzwaldkreis,Würtemberg, my great great grandfather’s older brother, Johann Georg Weber married Eva Katharina Kusterer.  They were the parents of three children:  Sabastian, Regina Anna, and Louisa.

My research shows that Uncle Georg came to the United States with Great Great Grandfather, Gottlieb (aka Goodliff), their sister, Chistianana, and their father Johann Adam.  I admit to being remiss in tracking the travels of any but my direct line.   Grandfather Adam Weber must have returned to Württemburg since he died there on 6 November 1849.  I have no record if Aunt Katharina accompanied Uncle Georg to America.

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156th Anniversary of Great Great GrandAunt & Uncle Rowe

Posted on January 9, 2020 by Pat Shaul

On 9 January 1864, in Oakland County, Michigan, Emily J. Lee, daughter of Horatio Lee and Hannah Munn, married Frederick Rowe.  I have very little information on my Aunt and her husband.   They were the parents of two sons:  Carl (1865) and Henry (1867).  Both boys were born in Missouri.  Aunt Emily passed away on 6 October 1888.  Uncle Frederick died on 13 February 1919.  Both were interred in the Lee family plot in the Southfield Cemetery, Southfield, Oakland County, Michigan.   Their information was incorporated on the family obelisk.

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Big Wedding Day for the Ancestors

Posted on January 8, 2020 by Pat Shaul

8 January seems to have been a favorite day for a number of my ancestors to wed.

In 1595 [425 years ago in England], John Jenks, son of William and Alicia Jenks, married Sarah Fulwater, daughter of Henry and Margaret Fulwater.  John and Sarah were my 10th great grand parents.  John and Sarah were the parents of Joseph Jenks, the inventor, that came to America in 1635 to establish the Iron Works at Saugus, Massachusetts.

In 1726 [294 years ago in Smithfield, Rhode Island), Jacob Smith, son of Joseph Smith and Patience Mowrey, married Dinah Harris.  Jacob and Dinah were my 6th great grandparents.  Jacob and Dinah were the parents of Mary Smith who wed Jesse Jenks, my Revolutionary War Patriot Ancestor that I used for entry into the Sons of the American Revolution.

In 1751 [269 year ago], Mark Hotchkiss, son of Joseph Hotchkiss and Hannah Cruttenden, married Miriam Lee, daughter of Joseph Lee and Lois Pond.  Mark and Miriam were also my 6th great grandparents.   Mark and Miriam were the parents of William Lee who, with his wife, Mary Summers, and their children, brought the Lee family to Oakland County, Michigan in the early 1820s.

The trail ends there.  At lease, the recorded trail.

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Happy 214th Birthday, Great Great Grandfather Weaver!

Posted on January 7, 2020 by Pat Shaul

7 January 1806, in Stuttgart, Württemberg, Gottlieb Weber was born to Johann Adam Weber and Anna Barbara Holzäpfel.   Gottlieb was the second of five children.  He immigrated to America with his father, brother, Johann Georg,  and sister, Christiana in 1827.  They first settled in Washington County, Pennsylvania.  Gottlieb met and married Anne Lane, the daughter of Richard and Mary Gayer Lane, on 29 January 1835, in Washington County, Pennsylvania.  Soon after the marriage, Gottlieb Weber became Goodliff Weaver.

The couple were the parents of 12 children:  Mary Ann (1836-1836), Roseanah (1837) [both born in Washington Co, PA), William Powell (1840) [Monroe Twp, Morgan Co, Ohio], Elizabeth Jane (1842) [she and the rest of the children were born in Perry County, Ohio], Margaret Anne (1844), Charles Louis (1847), Christiana (1849), David Shreider (1855), Jasper P (1855), Lemuel (1857) [my great grandfather], George Adam Hempleman (1861), and Eric (1864-1864).

Grandfather passed away on 15 November 1864, on month after Eric.  Both Eric and Grandmother Anne died during Eric’s birth on 14 October 1864.  Both grandparents are interred in Mount Carmel Cemetery, Rendville, Perry County, Ohio.

It is after Grandfather Goodliff Weaver that my grandfather, Lee Norton Goodliff Weaver, was given one of his middle names — and the one he kept into adulthood.

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279th Anniversary of 6th Great Grandparents Munn

Posted on December 31, 2019 by Pat Shaul

On New Years’ Eve, 1740, my 6th great grandparents, John Munn, son of Benjamin and Abigail Burt Munn, and Mary Holden, daughter of William and Abigail Edwards Holden,  were married in the colony of Massachusetts.  They were the parents of eight children: John (1741), Mary (1743), Noah (1746) [my 5th great grandfather and a soldier in the American Revolutionary Army], Oliver (1748), Abigail (1750), Sarah (1751), Seth (1754), and Elisha (1755).

Grandmother Munn passed away in Gill, Massachusetts on 8 January 1768.  Grandfather Munn followed 17 years later, also in Gill, on 5 April 1785.

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152 years ago Ezra Peter Koontz married Mary Anna Sibert

Posted on December 29, 2019 by Pat Shaul

On 29 December 1867, in Noble County, Indiana, Ezra Peter Koontz [my great great grandfather] married Mary Anna Sibert, the daughter of Phenias and Mary Jahne Sibert. Mary Anna was Grandfather’s second wife as his first wife, Mary Ann Allen had passed away 7 September 1864 in Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana.   At the time of his first wife’s death, Grandfather found himself left with four children all under the age of 11:  Huntington (1854-1865), Ephriam (1855-1857), Casmear P. (1857) [my great grandfather], Harriett Honora J. (1859), and Orrin DeForest (1862).

Ezra and Mary Anna [rather clever of Grandfather to marry a woman whose name was so close to wife #1] together had an additional three children: Phineas H. (1869), Ezra B (1871), and George Derr (1878).    It is from Uncle George that my grandmother was named one of the heirs and began her habit of investing any monies she got via inheritance in Petroleum Stocks — but never Texaco, since that is where Grandpa worked, until after Grandpa retired then she took all new money and laid it into Texaco.

Ezra Peter died 21 January 1907, in Ligonier, Noble County, Indiana, and was  laid to rest in Oak Park Cemetery there.  Mary Anna died 8 years later on 10 July 1915, also in Ligonier and is buried beside Grandfather.

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Remembering Great Great Great Grandmother Lee.

Posted on December 26, 2019 by Pat Shaul

It was 129 years ago, 26 December 1890, that Hannah Munn Lee, my three times great grandmother passed away at the age of 83.  Hannah Munn was born 11 August 1807, in New York to Noah, Jr. and Mercy Simons Munn.  On 5 April 1825, in West Bloomfield, Ontario, New York, she married Horatio Lee.  The couple left New York for the newly opened federal land in Michigan and settled in Farmington Township, Oakland County, Michigan, near Horatio’s parents, William and Mary Summers Lee.  They had migrated to Michigan by 1824 as all 12 of their children were born in Oakland County, Michigan: Caroline (1824), Clarissa (1826), Marietta (1828), George H. (1830), Charles Norton (1833) [my great great grandfather], Maria M. (1835), Emily J. (1838), Volney (1838), Mary C. (1842), Albert Lewis (1845), Thomas F. (1847), and Avis (1851).  

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Grandfather Lee died 15 February 1869, and was laid to rest in the Southfield Cemetery, Southfield, Oakland County, Michigan.  When Grandmother passed away 21 years later, she was interred next to him.

It was in tracing Grandmother’s Munn ancestry that I discovered my linkage to Mayflower Passengers Edward Fuller and his son Samuel.

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167th Anniversary of Cousin William and Matilda Ada Power Lee

Posted on December 23, 2019 by Pat Shaul

On 23 December 1852, my first cousin, 4 times removed, William Lee married Matilda Ada Power, the daughter of Ira and Amy LaPhine Power, in Farmington, Oakland County Michigan.   William was born 17 August 1827, in Mendon, New York, to Harvey and Mary Frances (Fanny) Knight Lee.  He migrated with his parents and the two older of his 9 siblings to Michigan in the 1828.   He was the last of the children born in New York.  Matilda Ada, also born in New York, on 21 May 1825, migrated with her parents to the same area of Oakland County, Michigan.

William and Matilda were the parents of three children: Eugene Jesse (1854), Ira Judson (1856), and Mary L (1858).   William died 3 December 1902.  Matilda died almost a year earlier  on 3 January 1902.   Both are buried in the Wixom Cemetery in Wixom, Oakland County, Michigan.

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Happy 250th Anniversary Grandma and Grandpa Munn!

Posted on December 7, 2019 by Pat Shaul

Noah Munn, Sr. and Desire Hitchcock, my 5 times great grandparents, were wed in Brimfield, Massachusetts, 250 years ago on 7 December 1769.  Noah was born 17 April in Deerfield, Massachusetts to John and Mary Holton Munn; Desire was born 5 March 1750 in Brimfield, Massachusetts to Moses and Bethiah Younglove Hitchcock.

Noah and Desire were the parents of eight children: Moses (1771), Noah, Jr. (1772) [my 4 times great grandfather], Aaron (1774), Elgad (1775), Sarah (1782), Clarissa (1787), Chloe (1787), and Asahel (1790).  There are a number of reasons that might explain the gap in the birth years of the fourth to the fifth child.  For the late 18th century, there might have been infants that died or miscarriages. Or, it might be as simple as Grandfather Munn was serving as a Private in the Revolutionary Army under Captain Agrippa Wells’ Company, Colonel Asa Whitcomb’s regiment.  He enlisted 15 July 1775.

Grandfather Munn died 13 May 1821, in Gill, Massachusetts.

 

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Happy 155th Birthday, Aunt Myra!

Posted on December 4, 2019 by Pat Shaul
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Hannah Almira Lee Churches

Hannah Almira Lee, called Myra, was born on 4 December 1864, in Southfield, Oakland County, Michigan, to Charles Norton and Esther Jenks Lee.  Aunt Myra was the younger sister of my great grandmother, Effie Clarissa Lee, appearing fourth in birth order of her parents’ six children.

On 26 March 1891, in Pontiac, Oakland County, Michigan, Aunt Myra married Robert Richard Churches, the son of Thomas and Harriet Roper Churches.    Aunt Myra and Uncle Robert were the parents of six children: Hazel (1897-1898), Roy Thomas (1901), Raymond Charles (1901) [twins], Baby Girl (1902-1902), Ivan Lee (1905), and Esther Harriet (1907).

On 2 September 1896, Myra’s younger sister, Ora, married Robert’s younger brother, George, making the tracing of the Churches line just a bit more complicated.

The Robert Churches played host to a few of the Jenks Family Reunions, and as is recorded on page 18 of The Reunions of the Jenks Family of Oakland County, Michigan – 1911-1927,  by Evelyn Seymour Jenks:

“The fifth annual reunion of the descendants of Laban Jenks, Sr., was held at the home of Robert and Myra Lee Churches in Southfield, August 14, 1915.  About 70 were present, a number being visitors.

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The Home of Robert and Myra Churches, Southfield, Michigan

“The company were from Athens, Detroit, Grosse Pointe, Holly, Haslett, Lansing, New Hudson, Owasso, Onodago, Pontiac, Redford, Square Lake, Farmington, and Southfield.

“There were but two of Laban Jenks’ children’s families represented.  Those of his daughter, Mrs. Polly Jenks Case, and his son, Morris Jenks. ”

Uncle Robert preceded Aunt Myra in death on 5 May 1952.  She died on 8 June 1954.  Both died in Southfield, Oakland County, Michigan, and were laid to rest in the Southfield Cemetery in that city.

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